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But it is a good idea, apparently, to deal with the KiwiBuild nightmare by ditching every target that might not be met and say, as Housing Minister Megan Woods did repeatedly: "We will build as many as we can as quickly as we can."

In putting KiwiBuild right, Woods put all the emphasis on the future, one that contains no targets for affordable KiwiBuild homes but which will apparently still be built if she can get the incentives right for private developers.

The Government's puny subsidies and grants that have helped a few people but not nearly enough to get into first homes, including KiwiBuild, will be relaxed and renamed (First Home Loan and First Home Grants) to open them up.

National's housing spokeswoman Judith Collins. Photo / Mark Mitchell

More importantly Woods announced a very handsome $400 million to allocate to various schemes yet to be approved to help low- to middle-income first-home buyers get on to the property ladder.

Some such schemes, such as rent to buy or shared equity, are already being operated by the likes of the Housing Foundation and Habitat for Humanity.

They could scale up or the Government could come up with its own scheme.

All the detail has yet to be submitted to the Cabinet by Woods and approved, and it is a $400m idea that will be raw meat to Judith Collins.

Greens Party co-leader Marama Davidson sat next to Woods throughout her nearly hour-long press conference, claiming Green credit, as she rightly should, for another policy ticked off from the party's confidence and supply agreement with Labour.

Woods sold the $400m for schemes as an evolutionary step in the large role Governments have historically played over the years in helping Kiwis get into home ownership, be it by a State Advances Loan, a Post Office home ownership account or a Welcome Home Loan.

She will publish a monthly "dashboard" giving updates on all sorts of data related to home building in New Zealand but you can guarantee there won't be a target among them.